Daily Answers

1-across – Vulnerable checkout probed by Times journalist : EXPOSED

5-across – Pay here for the other comrade, parting with last pound : BROTHEL

9-across – Pommie grabbing 30% of Queensland’s solid fuel : BRIQUET

10-across – Antipodean city one goes round with umbrella on vacation : ROTORUA

11-across – Thuggish female unfairly treated : RUFFIANLY

12-across – On the contrary, chef in kitchen needs it : KNIFE

13-across – Bird, duck, far from dry crossing lake : OWLET

15-across – Improper behaviour finally stops in Centre Court : INCORRECT

17-across – It’s easy to see robin near ground : NOBRAINER

19-across – Head of Moscow theatres brought back male-only production : SPERM

22-across – Decent exam mark given first : MORAL

23-across – Fitted like brig cardinal joined, carrying son : TWOMASTED

25-across – Liberal in church welcoming church’s lack of restraint : LICENCE

26-across – Powerful batting, past, present or future? : INTENSE

27-across – First cuts wound rebellious bigots : RACISTS

28-across – Inclination to avoid parking transport : ENCHANT

1-down – Stoppage in local game after Nutmeg turns up : EMBARGO

2-down – Harrowing tub farmers’ union’s invested in : PAINFUL

3-down – Small car belonging to monarchy : SAUDI

4-down – Prison’s famous mounted guards went in without cover : DETENTION

5-down – We’re told to cover up fruit : BERRY

6-down – Part of town public steers clear of : OUTSKIRTS

7-down – Leading lady’s horse close to stable : HEROINE

8-down – Least productive 20th-century director is French : LEANEST

14-down – Tracks a minstrel’s playing? : TRAMLINES

16-down – Vitriolic old bishop beset by turbulent voices : CORROSIVE

17-down – Defter doctor aboard liner taken ill : NIMBLER

18-down – Skint revolutionary about to knock off, I see : BORACIC

20-down – Country houses, last two more stylish, you might say : ESTONIA

21-down – Region of US we’d abandoned in film : MIDWEST

23-down – Disperse head-to-foot clothing for the clans : TREWS

24-down – Top position that ticket secures : ATTIC

1-across – Spirit blown over, filling topsail? : SPINNAKER

6-across – Sandpiper in need of sandpapering, it’s said? : RUFF

8-across – Algiers at odds with old palace of Constantinople : SERAGLIO

9-across – Set free, leader of coup in deeply unpopular revolutionary : DETACH

10-across – Colours adorning the surface of vessel : FLAGON

11-across – Musical predicament inspiring prayer, looking back : SPAMALOT

12-across – Computer assistant thus recalled god : OSIRIS

15-across – Keeping it in the family, a little stone pot is mine : NEPOTISM

16-across – Poet trims around tree : PAMAYRES

19-across – Regal office shed, we hear : THRONE

21-across – Wave away solicitor deciding procedure : SHOOTOUT

22-across – One person receives correspondence : PARITY

24-across – A metropolis : ATTICA

25-across – More extensive coverage for reasonable help in a play : LOOKBACK

26-across – Perhaps like one’s wireless even more! : WITH

27-across – Seriously primitive lodging house : EARNESTLY

1-down – Fine rise : SWELL

2-down – See 25 : INANGER

3-down – State capital not half material : NYLON

4-down – See 26 : KNOBSON

5-down – Ferrari probably favourite where superstar would put foot down? : REDCARPET

6-down – Take back ultimate piece in artefact old archaeologist brought up : RETRACT

7-down – Takes account of some fish nets cast : FACTORSIN

13-down – Get hollow pasta? This is different : SPAGHETTI

14-down – Substitute rat with grouse in a stew : SURROGATE

17-down – End a nonsense, penning short story : ABOLISH

18-down – New arrival has me pinching my own bottom? : SETTLER

20-down – Dish, exquisite taste : RAREBIT

22-down – Highly corrosive ring : PHONE

23-down – Naff, like a nail? : TACKY

1-across – Is Mr Potato Head to cry around fellow citizens? : COMPATRIOTS

9-across – Punished American getting drugs out of back of German car : AMERCED

10-across – Current cup holder to follow victory: change pitch with this? : VIBRATO

11-across – Close arguments with these? Draws lots, randomly : LASTWORDS

12-across – Tips from Tom Hanks: film a character : THETA

13-across – Note: does have chest bug : NARK

14-across – Plan mother’s time at home with daughter : MASTERMIND

16-across – One can’t keep away from lad reversing one yard in front of driver pulling over : NOSYPARKER

19-across – Toy Story’s endless love : LEGO

21-across – Party girl mostly first to act badly : MISDO

22-across – Does press put English into old page with changes? : EXPEDITES

24-across – Part of online Visa verification for review: it’s not straightforward : EVASIVE

25-across – Completely clear, England captain dismissed : ROOTOUT

26-across – Marriage wreckers: losers settled with these? : TIEBREAKERS

1-down – Fantastic actresses earn it with few lines? : CREASERESISTANT

2-down – One might talk through bill with account in the morning recalled : MACAW

3-down – Land with short pointer pointing up : ANDORRA

4-down – Once more see on TV: is broadcast featuring one? : REVISIT

5-down – They go around with gold teeth : ORBITERS

6-down – Actors follow these in Toy Story, initially categorised for animation : STAGEDIRECTIONS

7-down – Ultimately Sheriff Woody in film’s dead : FALLEN

8-down – Firm returned sketch for Jessie : COWARD

15-down – Partner in, Mrs out: Bo Peep going out : OPPOSITE

16-down – See 15 : NUMBER

17-down – Animals run out with energy, rolling over grass : ROEDEER

18-down – Parking over space at the front, show around shops : EMPORIA

20-down – Starts playing scenes : ONSETS

23-down – Buzz Lightyear’s back, ready to entertain : DRONE

7-across – Blair mobilised to go round overdue, involving both sides : BILATERAL

8-across – Minor role appeared before central character in story : CAMEO

9-across – Thus a reason not to smoke with a French rogue : SONOFAGUN

10-across – Nostromo, wrecked on ocean, initially lost in Typhoon : STORM

12-across – A dictator gains European leadership in Suspense : ONEDGE

13-across – Model tracks creative work reversing gusset : TRAINSET

16-across – Stone slab, incised with record of church construction : STEEPLE

19-across – Losing second fellow, lifeboats sent up maroon : ISOLATE

22-across – [Guardian group accepts position of Corbyn, Opposition leader] : CHAMPION

25-across – Seafarer who wrote about navy leader in A Winding Road : CONRAD

27-across – The Inheritors takes on empire’s leader, moving to the left : HEIRS

28-across – Saying nothing about Chance makes one a fool : DUMBCLUCK

29-across – Act as The Informer in part allocated selflessly : RATON

30-across – Prepared to attack in hoard with central character in The Nigger of the Narcissus : LAYINWAIT

1-down – Deny row about broadcast : DISOWN

2-down – Once old, a changing disposition to share Romance : CANOODLE

3-down – Wipe out revolutionary in The Secret Agent : NEGATE

4-down – Emptiness shown in Victory with sharpness of vision : VACUITY

5-down – Garment from Boatman’s back, absent in Heart of Darkness : KAFTAN

6-down – [Extent of revolution in BA?] : DEGREE

11-down – Under Western Eyes spoke of manners : WAYS

14-down – Deep brown, without end : SEA

15-down – It is brought up over The End of the Tether : TIE

16-down – Dry in bits would be halves : SEC

17-down – Foreign character central to The Tale : ETA

18-down – Boatman taken by Youth set : LAID

20-down – Liberal and left wings to allow end to onerous property legislation? : LANDLAWS

21-down – Violent run-in, alas, with An Outcast of the Islands : INSULAR

23-down – They may laugh at grouchy Ena Sharples’s revelation : HYENAS

24-down – 25 across’s central character is gloomy following wreck : MARLOW

25-down – Copper with nothing to offer about a typical cell’s shape : CUBOID

26-down – Cold conditions for developing cacti, right? : ARCTIC

1-across – Remote location in loop, might you say? : BACKWATER

6-across – See 19 : SHIRT

9-across – Piece, central to, or on the far side of, banner : QUEEN

10-across – Time of special power, perhaps, in recollection of deviant criminal : DESPERADO

11-across – Time has no beginning — whoops! : EEK

12-across – Pair seen in Texas, perhaps — unqualified drug dealers? : COWBOYBOOTS

14-across – Aim to impress girl in skin-treatment establishment : TANNERY

15-across – To spare a net breaking, fold round it : APLENTY

16-across – Fur tops taken off, freeze : FROSTUP

19-across – Pompous type, why the overweight appearance? : STUFFED

22-across – Is one’s engagement a head-turner? : REVERSEGEAR

23-across – Be in charge of career : RUN

24-across – Canvas items. I say, with salts at sea : STAYSAILS

26-across – Shame only valuable on the surface, we hear? : GUILT

27-across – Turn out, on being missed by team : EVERT

28-across – After conversion, 1 x 500 turned into currency : MONETISED

1-down – One’s left foot in bathtub, ask to remove right : BEQUEST

2-down – Read aloud Prague’s hotel register? : CHECKIN

3-down – Cold in head spreading in January, perhaps — something needed to keep warm? : WINDCHEATER

4-down – Moisture beneath one in river channel : TIDEWAY

5-down – Rash came up on legs and heads : ROSEOLA

6-down – Novel abandoned, unfinished : SHE

7-down – American English lacking in proposal, zilch in shorthand? : IDAHOAN

8-down – Wrong coming up with blue for red : TROTSKY

13-down – Place throw vertically over fitting, very straight : BOLTUPRIGHT

16-down – Expect number and letter on the phone? : FORESEE

17-down – Do away with cracks above it : OBVIATE

18-down – Excellent injecting iodine in the months of pregnancy? : PREMIUM

19-down – Hat collections being worn, including first of trilbies : STETSON

20-down – Time of life devoted to bonding? : FORTIES

21-down – Loading heavy weight up, something to sign, marked : DENOTED

25-down – Appearing in dungarees, Italian model : SIT